Here’s another tile from my low-fire 2007 collection.  Another fact: Instead of rolling out the slabs, I pounded them with a wooden mallet, flattened on one side, that I got at a workshop by Junya Shao and Xiaoping Luo at the Vihel center in Tempe.  I find that if you pound the clay flat rather than rolling it, you get a nice density and less warpage.

This isn’t a very good photo, but it’s one from my old site that I saved for when I didn’t have anything new to post.  I’m working on two projects right now, a stained glass window panel, and a large mural.  I will post photos of them when they’re done.

I don’t have anything finished right now, so I thought I would post some tiles that I made last year. These are hand made tiles, slip trailed with neutral colored slip from a jacquard bottle.  After I bisque fired them, I used the slip trails as a border for the glazes.  If I were to do it again, I’d use the “French Impressions” 3d low fire glazes to get the effect I want.  Slip trailing is a lot more work.

This is a tile mosaic that I created last year.  It’s based off a painting, whose name I have forgotten.  The words spell out a line from my novel Alternate Susan, which I edited out in the second draft.  I still like the cadence.

Girl with Scythe